Mark Manson Quotes

We have this idealized romanticism about how love might solve all of our problems, but then it doesn't.

When you fall in love, and you're very young, you think that that's the love of your life. And maybe it is, but it usually doesn't turn out that way.

In our culture, many of us idealize love. We see it as some lofty cure-all for all of life's problems. Our movies and our stories and our history all celebrate it as life's ultimate goal, the final solution for all of our pain and struggle. And because we idealize love, we overestimate it. As a result, our relationships pay a price.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.

Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

When you are very idealistic, but caught in a world which is all about business, it creates anguish.

I'm not always going to keep waiting for a fairytale ending.

Where I live, in Vermont, there's this thing that women know about men, which is this disease: their childhood was so idyllic that nothing in the rest of their life can ever be satisfying. It's almost a plague.

The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.

I am disappointed when I don't win, because I want to believe I can win on every horse I ride, which is a ridiculous thing to think. Even if I'm on a horse that I have woken up thinking has no chance, by the time I've reached the course, I'll have convinced myself that it can win and will be disappointed if it doesn't.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

I was blinded by being a romantic person.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Nothing that you want ever is what you think it is.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

California is a tragic country … like every Promised Land.

Most people imagine that resolving particular problems will make them happy. If only one had more money, or love, or success, then life would feel manageable. It can be devastating to realize the falseness of such tempered optimism.

I am a romantic person and maybe have this Hollywood perception of love... but then, it's never really like the movies.

Like everybody, I too believed that couples lived happily ever after. But it only happens in books.

You cannot be in love with love.